Writing creative poetry is something I love to do but making money at it is never easy. Poets need to be creative in business in order generate income. Poets can brainstorm with their friends, publishers, poetry groups and life coaches to generate ideas. Creative poetry ideas can come from relationships, listening to others, life stories, stories in the newspaper, or a walk in the park. Sometimes all you have to do is look around you because poetry is found right under your nose.
Creative poems are found in advertisements, greeting cards, and TV commercials. Songs are made up of creative poems added to music. Poems are combined with creative sculpture parks, painting, and audio tours, or create poems for special occasions. Creative poetry can be written for wedding announcements, given to guess at hotels, and published in chapbooks. It can be read out-loud at open mike nights and used to move people’s opinion. Creative poetry and art can are combine and published in books or shown in an art galleries. Greeting card companies buy hundreds of creative poems each year. The play “Cats” is made up of a series of creative poems and has travel around the country.
What are you doing with your creative poetry? I would like to hear from you, so send me your creative ideas on how to make money with poetry.
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August 10, 2007 at 10:34 pm
oms900
You mention that poems can earn you $$ by getting them in cards, advertisements etc. But where do you go to submit these poems for consideration? Simply sending a poem to the marketing department of Hallmark doesn’t seem like it would work. Any specific approaches to sending your stuff (art or poems) for consideration? emails? sites to look at?
thanks!
R.C.B.
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August 12, 2007 at 1:08 am
lifecreativitycoach
You can find leads in the Poet’s Market book, Poetry Market newsletter, in the back of magazines about poetry or writing. You can build a portifolio by submitting you poems to magazines including http://www.brokenbridges.com and http://www.pshares.org. You can find grants by googling grants and poetry.
Poets living in motels provide guests with a poem every moring in exchange for a place to live while earning money by creating poetry nights, poetry slams, and creating special poems for guest. There is a least one poetry park, which was created with a grant. There are poetry slams at colleges where the poets get paid. Advertisments contain poetry, so you could try several advertisment agencies near you.
Before sending out you poems, you can write a letter that describes your style of poetry, your themes, and if you have been published before. In the letter you can ask if they would be interested in seeing your poems. Before submitting poems to a magazine you should read one or two copies of it, make sure your work will fit in, and follow their submission rules.
You should discover before signing any contract who keeps the copywrite on each poem. Sometimes the buyer gets the rights but you can keep them. The income for writing poems is usually less then other forms of writing. The poet needs to be creative and proactive in searching for leads.
Terri